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requirements create an additional barrier for students? Comparing students in states with and without standalone personal finance … behaviors, and these findings suggest there are not simultaneous adverse effects overall or for at-risk students. …
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intervention prompted specific subgroups (i.e., youth with lower levels of financial knowledge) to invest more in financial …
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, effects were larger for those with greater financial knowledge, suggesting this type of tool complements, rather than …
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-term financial knowledge and awareness of the young, but there is no proven evidence on long-term behavior after being grown up …
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We study the effects of low-intensity digital financial education interventions on undergraduate students' financial … knowledge in a small-scale RCT. We test the substitutability or complementarity of two treatments: an online video financial … education treatment and an incentive-based approach where students are issued pre-paid voucher cards worth 50 EUR to register …
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have, on average, positive causal treatment effects on financial knowledge and downstream financial behaviors. Treatment …
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the degree of gender convergence in financial knowledge in the country of ancestry, the higher the financial knowledge of … with greater financial knowledge for men but not for women in the US. Once we remove any country-of-ancestry gender … variation from these preferences, gender convergence in financial knowledge continues to be associated with women's (relative …
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Estimation of the causal effect of a binary treatment on outcomes often requires conditioning on covariates to address selection on observed variables. This is not straightforward when one or more of the covariates are measured with error. Here, we present a new semi-parametric estimator that...
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Financial Education courses required for high school graduation make a difference in students' future financial lives … of services to offer their students, and these networks are more predictive than economic or demographic characteristics …
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We examine the impact of providing access to mobile savings accounts and improving financial management skills on the performance of female-led microenterprises in Mozambique. We find evidence that both interventions can improve business performance but the effects are highly heterogeneous....
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